Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drops of blood from a baby’s heel are dropped onto paper for genetic disease screening (isayildiz via iStock) Three New Jersey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If your baby spits up blood, it might be from swallowed maternal blood, which is usually not serious. Cracked nipples from ...

Hannah Lovaglio's first son entered the world a month early. Nurses bustled in and out of the hospital room during his first days of life and frequently pricked his heel to check his blood, Lovaglio ...

Hannah Lovaglio is one of the New Jersey parents suing over the state's stockpile of newborn blood samples. Every state in the U.S. requires hospitals to take a small blood sample from newborns to ...

A group of New Jersey parents filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the state’s practice of keeping newborn babies’ blood samples for 23 years without their parents’ knowledge. The state can ...

This July 2022 photo shows a lab in Lansing, Mich., where the state health department tests blood from newborns for more than 50 rare diseases. (Joey Cappelletti/Report for America via AP) (CN) — A ...

Before you got pregnant, you may not have given umbilical cords much thought. But did you know it's full of cells that could save someone's life? Not to brag, but cord blood is a pretty big deal, and ...

Moms describe the process, from decision to delivery day.

This July 2022 photo shows a lab in Lansing, Mich., where the state health department tests blood from newborns for more than 50 rare diseases. (Joey Cappelletti/Report for America via AP) (CN) — The ...

Welcoming a newborn is usually a time of pure joy for any family, but for some parents, unexpected health scares like severe anaemia can turn that happiness into anxiety. While most of us have heard ...